If you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no need of intellectual knowledge.

The effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become obsessed with what we are not.

A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation.

The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.

Do not struggle. Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the mysterious unity of the Universe.

Let your mind wander in the pure and simple. Be one with the infinite. Let all things take their course.

The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.

When an archer shoots for enjoyment, he has all his skill; when he shoots for a brass buckle, he gets nervous; when he shoots for a prize of gold, he begins to see two targets.

We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.

Never admire a man by his strength; judge him in how he uses it- A way is made by walking it

Your mind must become one, do not try to understand with your ears but with your heart. Indeed, not with your heart but with your soul.

Learn to do everything with speed to be efficient and effective

Those who say that money can’t buy one love make it sound as if love can buy one money.

There's nothing wrong with being a cop. There's nothing wrong with being a white person. It's about where your heart is...We've got to get everyone beyond the xenophobic isolationism.

What questions do I want my audience to ask?

Childhood and genius have the same master organ in common - inquisitiveness.

Your son at five is your master, at ten your slave, at fifteen your double, and after that, your friend or foe, depending on his bringing up.

Research shows that happy people look for opportunity while others see only crises. Surrendering fear is healthy!

When I think I've made an error, it can cause me a sleepless night. But that only happens rarely.

Hands that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre.

America should do a reverse Columbus. The world no longer needs to discover America; but America urgently needs to discover the world's view of America.